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The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Consumers’ payment data is a compelling target for criminals who continue to circumvent IT security defenses. Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. million, second only to healthcare.

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here.

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Defining Good: A Strategic Approach to API Risk Reduction

Security Boulevard

Organizations first looked to augment their existing web application security tools and processes to “address” API security. Unfortunately, the security challenges associated with APIs can't be solved by simply updating existing testing tools and edge security defenses to check-the-box technologies that claim to provide "API security."

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From Caribbean shores to your devices: analyzing Cuba ransomware

SecureList

The gang has scored a series of resonant attacks on oil companies, financial services , government agencies and healthcare providers. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. It looks for data both locally and inside network shares.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/22/24 – Cisco, Ivanti, Oracle & More

eSecurity Planet

Widely-used PuTTY Utility Allows Recovery of Encryption Secret Keys Type of vulnerability: Deterministic cryptographic number generation. that didn’t generate sufficiently random numbers for encryption keys, which could allow an attacker to fully recover keys and impersonate users after obtaining roughly 60 signatures.

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What Are Firewall Rules? Ultimate Guide & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

For teams in industries like financial services, healthcare, and government, the more specific the access rule, the better. Create Rules with Appropriate Levels of Protection Tailor your firewall rules to the security needs of your organization. Access rules help block known malicious traffic sources.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks. Learn more about what security leaders have to say about the upcoming year below: Neil Jones, cybersecurity evangelist, Egnyte.